Faith is apparently on the rise (~84% of the world), and whether you like them or not they have to be worked with. Their culture and ideas will inform society whether we like it or not. By blinkering ourselves you’ll allow the worst opportunists to take advantage of both them and your ignorant selves.
Duder167@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it on the rise or is it apparently on the rise? Is faith including everything from Jesus to the flying spaghetti monster? Islam seems to be the only religion with growth, projected to catch up to Christianity by 2050. I guess you meant we will be working with Muslims as they will be shaping the world, sorry women of the world.
Historical_General@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People like us in the wealthiest nations have no right to criticise Muslims as a group (if that’s even legitimate criticism, it isn’t) when we prop up the worst Muslims (Saudis and other Arabs) and have always worked against democratic, secular and relatively feminist and progressive elements in the Muslim world.
Your snide anti-intellectual new atheism is a cover for general snobbery and possibly a barely concealed racialised Islamophobia.